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| Genus: | Afrotarsius Simons & Bown, 1985
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Afrotarsius is a primate found in the Paleogene of Africa. The first species to be found, Afrotarsius chatrathi, was named in 1985 on the basis of a single lower jaw from the Oligocene of Fayum, Egypt, and tentatively referred to the tarsier family (Tarsiidae).[1] However, this relationship immediately proved controversial, and in 1987 the animal was placed in a separate family Afrotarsiidae related to simians.[2] A tarsier-like tibiofibula was allocated to Afrotarsius in 1998,[3] but the identity of this bone is controversial.[4] In 2010, a second species of the genus, Afrotarsius libycus, was named from the Eocene of Dur At-Talah, Libya, on the basis of isolated upper and lower teeth. Features of these teeth were interpreted as additional evidence for a relationship between Afrotarsius and anthropoids.[5] A second afrotarsiid genus, Afrasia, was named in 2012 from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar. In the same paper, Afrotarsiidae was placed together with the Asian Eosimiidae in an infraorder Eosimiiformes, closely related to crown-group simians.[6]
References
- ^ Simons & Bown 1985.
- ^ Ginsburg & Mein 1987, p. 1215.
- ^ Rasmussen, Conroy & Simons 1998.
- ^ Godinot 2010, p. 321.
- ^ Jaeger et al. 2010.
- ^ Chaimanee et al. 2012.
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